Menaechmi

Menaechmi is a Latin comedy of Plautus. The German name for this piece is the two twins. It was first performed 200 v. Christ in Rome.

Content

The comedy of errors that is based on templates of Modern Attic comedy, set in a Epidamnus after a prologue, the previous events were reported: In Syracuse, twin brothers were torn apart; one was kidnapped and has since lived in Epidamnus. The retarded received from his grieving parents the name of his kidnapped brother. Menaechmus II is now looking his brother and finds him. Since his arrival two befall the most amazing events that are due to manifold confusion. Menaechmus I insulted desolate by his friends and his wife, on the other hand Manaechmus II courted. To escape the incomprehensible proportions, marked Manaechmus II the madman, but it is Manaechmus I, which is presented to the physician. Only at the very end of the piece is defined by a comparison of the twin brothers on everything.

Minor characters

In this piece there are minor characters as the parasite, the prostitute, the worried father and the servants. A sense of being scenic effects Plautus through eight well-built confusing situations until the knot dissolves. Shakespeare joined in his early work The Comedy of Errors closely to this plant that he doubled the twin theme.

Swell

• Reclams acting leader: Stuttgart: Reclam 2001 ( 21.Auflage ), pp. 57-58.

• Literary work
• Ancient Comedy
• Literature ( Latin)
• Literature ( 2nd century BC)
• Plautus